The Conflict of Judicial Decisions. By William H. Bailey, LL.D. M. Curlander, LawPublisher, Baltimore, 1888. $5.50 net.
This work is peculiar in one respect. There is, so far as we know, nothing like it in our legal literature. It is not, as might be supposed, a treatise on the conflict of laws, but the author's design is to show how the various courts have differed in their judgment of certain important subjects. The great usefulness of the work cannot fail to be appreciated by any lawyer who will carefully examine it. Here, by a rapid glance, he may see at once the position of the various courts of last resort with reference to the many topics included in its pages. The text covers four hundred pages; the table of cases cited, seventy-six pages. Great care and much labor have evidently been expended by the author in the gathering and arranging the cases pro and con, upon the different judicial questions. The work is certainly one of great practical value to the profession.
